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STAIR ROD SECURER No. 349,550. Patented' Sept. 21, 1886.

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9 0iL lDO and set-screws applied to the ends and intersecting the holes.

' represents the stairs, and B a carpet secured end with a transverse hole, 0, adapted to re- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAM \V. \VHEATON, OF NEIVARK, NE\V JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MATTHIAS VHEATON, OF SAME PLACEJ I SECURER.

5PE@I?lCATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,550, dated September 21, 1886.

Application filed March 11, 1886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAM V. IVHEATON, a citizen ofthe United States, residing in Newark, Essex county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stair-Rods, full y described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming apart of the same.

This invention consists in a stair-rod constructed with transverse holes near the ends In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of stairs having. thereon a carpet with the stair-rods applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the studbrackets to which the ends of the stair-rod are attached. Fig. 3 is a view of the inner side of one end of a stair-rod. Fig. 4is a longitudinal section through the center of the transverse hole in the rod, and Fig. 5 a similar section showing another construction for the rod. Fig. 6 is a transverse section of the parts shown in Fig. 1 through the transverse hole in the rod. Fig. 7 is a section on line 00 w in Fig. 4. Fig. 8 is a view of a rod in a plane perpendicular to the transverse holes, and Fig. 9 is a view of the same in a plane parallel to the transverse holes, one end being in section. Figs. 3 to 7, inclusive, are drawn full size.

The rod itself consists, as shown in Figs. 8 and 9, of a straight bar, 0, provided near each ceive a stud affixed to the stairs, and having a set-screw,. c, inserted in the end of the rod, and extended to such transverse hole to clamp such stud. Figs. 1 and 6 show the application of such rod to the stairs. In these figures, A

thereon by two stair-rods, O.

A construction partly of wood and partly of metal is shown in the remaining figures of the drawings for the purpose of furnishing a lighter rod when desired. In these figures, a is the body of the rod, represented herein as of wood, and having a sheet-metal covering, a, secured to its outer surface by bending aflange oi the metal into a groove, a formed on its rear side. A casting, b, is secured at each end of the rod and provided with a transverse Serial No. 194,794. (No model.)

hole, 0, and a threaded hole is formed in the s end of each casting, intersecting the hole 0, and is provided with a set-screw, e. Thecastings b may be soldered to the sheet-meta1 covering where it laps over the castings, as shown in Fig. 3; or they may be constructed with a tongue, i, provided with screw-holes and secured by'screws s in a slot in the wood beneath the cover, as shown in Figs. 4 and 7.

Such a stair-rod is secured to the stairs by means of studs (1, which may be'projected diagonally from the angle formed by the tread and riser of the stairs, by any convenient fastening, asthe angle-platef, the studs being secured upon the stairs to coincide with the transverse holes 0, formed near the opposite ends of the stair-rod, and the rod being clamped upon the stud, when applied thereto, by turning the set-screws and pinching the studs in the holes 0. Such a mode of fastening 7o obviously renders the stair-rod adjustable to and from the angle of the stairs, and permits the rods to be pressed more or less firmly upon the carpet, as may be desired.

The stair-rod may be removed by simply loosening the set-screws in the opposite ends of the same.

In Figs. 1, 3, and 4 the threaded hole is shown formed in its outer end with a cylindrical. socket, m, and the head 6' of the setscrew is shown constructed like the knob of an acorn, with its base fitted into such socket,

so that the screw may be turned in and out without exposing its thread. A similar construction for the set-screw is shown in Figs. 85, S and 9. By this means the application of the set-screw to the casting b or rod 0 is entirely concealed.

D in Figs. 4 and 5 represents the line of the step to which the foot of the stud is fastened, 0 and as the screw, when extended in a line with the stair-rod, as shownin Fig. 4, may be diffi cult of access, I have devised the construction shown in Fig. 5, where the set-screw is inclined to the line of the rod, and therefore 5 stands farther from the step D.

' By my construction the metallic ends may be connected with the wood independent of the covering, and the covering may therefore be removed and replaced by another of dif- 10o prevailing style of such articles.

ferent design when any change occurs in the Entirely new stair-rods may also be applied tothe studs when the latter are once affixed in the stairs. I am aware that a rod having transverse holes near its ends is not new; but such rod has heretofore been secured to the stairs by locking devices attached to the stairs and projecting through the transverse holes therein. I therefore disclaim such construction, limiting myself to the construction shown herein, in which the fastening device is carried by the rod.

Having thus set forth my invention, I claim the same as follows: 1. The combination, with a stair-rod having Vfitn esscs HENRY J. MILLER, HENRY J. THEBLERATH. 

